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ARRGHHH - IOL Gold and UNIX/BeOS

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  • 01-05-2003 6:17pm
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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 69,087 ✭✭✭✭


    Can ANYONE get IOL Gold (1891121121) to connect from an OS with a *NIX networking stack? I have tried BeOS (my base OS), SuSE and Mandrake Linuxes, and none can connect properly.. and IOL are no help really, they offered me a Windows dialer...

    Anyone any idea why they won't connect? Username/password work in Windows, number is right, modem can dial Eircom Free perfectly. There is a possibilty the authenticiation method is not "Standard PPP" but "Alternate PPP" or "Unix Login", but neither works either under BeOS


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    eth0_
    Registered Users Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    Originally posted by MYOB
    and IOL are no help really, they offered me a Windows dialer...

    Well, yeah, because they don't support your OS. BeOS never really made much of a dent in the OS market did it :)

    Try looking on linux.ie, they have scripts there for *nix that should work no probs.


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    SkepticOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭SkepticOne


    WvDial is good for connecting to most ISPs. I haven't used it with IOL Gold, but it seems fairly intelligent and flexible.


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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 69,087 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I've not gotten to the stage where I can get in (Other Type 1 server type, UNIX Login, and a PPP terminal), but the DNS's seem to be rejecting me, and the speed is terrible... I can connect to Eircom Free perfectly well, at somewhere between 45-48K, and get all full services working...

    I will try tonight with BeOS 5.1, which uses BSD's networking stack... might have more success, might be seen as a Unix and not BeOS by their fickle servers

    KPPP still won't get me in though


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    Urban Weigl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Urban Weigl


    I don't have any difficulties connecting into IOL Gold from Mac OS X, which is an Unix operating system very similar to FreeBSD.

    As far as I know they use standard TCP/IP and PPP, so unless you aren't configuring something correctly you should not have any difficulties. They're not using their own thing like AOL where you need special software.


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    Ronin
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Ronin


    linux also connects in fine.

    Paul


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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 69,087 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Its the DNS servers, dammit..

    IOL Gold dial-in, Eircom.net DNS servers, and its fin

    IOL Gold dial-in, IOL DNS servers, nothing

    works fine in Windows though


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    eth0_
    Registered Users Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    Originally posted by MYOB
    Its the DNS servers, dammit..

    IOL Gold dial-in, Eircom.net DNS servers, and its fin

    IOL Gold dial-in, IOL DNS servers, nothing

    works fine in Windows though

    How can it possibly be the IOL DNS servers? They don't care what OS you use....


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    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    I use IOL free - with Mandrake and no problems. Set your DNS servers to "obtain automatically", probably the same for IP address.

    Let the IOL server determine what the DNS servers are and you should have no trouble.


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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 69,087 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Originally posted by eth0_
    How can it possibly be the IOL DNS servers? They don't care what OS you use....

    I really thought that myself, but the same servers work fine in Windows, and in SuSE 8.1. No other ISP has a problem with BeOS, its networking in solid, and pretends to be FreeBSD 4.x to the outside world

    tom dunne - i'll give that a try again, didn't work last time, but I did actually have DNS's entered last time, even though they became greyed out


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